Assessing the naturalness of scenes: An approach using statistics of local features

2008 23rd International Conference Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, IVCNZ

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Deng, Jeremiah D ^a   Brinkworth, Russell S A ^b   O'Carroll, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature selection; Fractal; Natural scenes

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DIGITAL IMAGE DATUM; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; FRACTAL FEATURES; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES; LOCAL FEATURES; NATURAL SCENES; RESEARCH TOPICS; SPECTRAL FEATURES;

FRACTALS;

EID: 63049092482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVCNZ.2008.4762129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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